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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
LOUIS THE 19th, KING OF THE AIRWAVES
A once-outlandish French-Canadian comedy about a thoroughly Average Joe who finds himself the star of a reality TV program
DARKTOWN STRUTTERS
A blaxploitation movie parody that’s funny, illuminating and often downright ugly
POLTERGEIST III
The Second sequel to POLTERGEIST, and about on par with the first, which is to say a mixed bag: bombastic, cynical and plain dumb, but with some affecting elements
POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE
A lousy movie, yes, but one that actually improves upon its predecessor in many respects.
DREAMWOOD
The 1972 magnum opus of the late underground film legend James Broughton
FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND
Certainly one of the most unusual novels to emerge from the 1930s hard-boiled school
THE STRANGERS
A vastly overpraised novel, but one that imparts a powerful sense of near-otherworldly strangeness
THE LAST CHILDREN
This uber-bleak depiction of a post-nuclear Germany was published, unbelievably enough, as a children’s book
THE BARN OF FEAR
An underground comix anthology about homicidal animals. At least one of its parts is strong.
UGLY MUG 7
The latest installment of the UK based House of Harley’s UGLY MUG series of underground comix art
I’M SCREAMING AS FAST AS I CAN: MY LIFE IN B-MOVIES
A slim but reasonably satisfying mini-memoir by Linnea Quigley, the most prominent of the 1980s and ‘90s scream queens
CUT TO THE CHASE
A movie book that’s as gossipy, informative and entertaining as anyone could possibly want
TURNING JAPANESE
A short collection of six Asian Cult Cinema magazine articles, spanning the years 1997 to 2007, by the late horror novelist Jack Ketchum
CONCLUSIONS
Director John Boorman provided an elegantly drafted memoir back in 2003, and with CONCLUSIONS he completes it
RIDLEY SCOTT: A BIOGRAPHY
A book about the prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott that isn’t what I’d call revelatory
Pendulous Wood
Ed Wood and Pendulum Books: a match made in Hell?
YO HO HO vs. THE FALL
Two interesting films that deserve a joint analysis
TV Flashback: TODD AND THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL
Here’s a Canadian TV program that, even if you didn’t actually view it, you probably remember
TV Flashback: THE HORROR HALL OF FAME
A horror movie Academy Awards? Here’s the closest thing that exists to such a program
The DUNEiverse and Its Discontents
DUNE: the novels, films and everything else